An Analysis Of Social Media Toward Students’ Writing Ability At English Study Program In Islamic University Of Riau.

This study aims to find out the benefit of social media toward students’ writing ability at English study program in Islamic University of Riau. It studies and analyzes students’ habit of using social media and the benefit that they gain from it towards their writing ability. This study used a descriptive quantitative method. The instrument that are used are Questionnaire and writing test. it aims to measured the activity level of the eighth-semester students at the English education department at the Islamic University of Riau on social media and their writing ability, along with the benefit that they gain especially regarding writing skills. The benefit that were studied were then divided into five section such as; organizing idea, content, grammar, vocabulary and mechanics. Based on the positive outcome of the research, writer concluded that social media can give tremendous benefit to students especially towards their writing skill. Based on the data, students that are more active in social media tend to have a better writing ability than students that are not, with 82.08% writing score for students that are very active in social media, 77.81 for more active, 70.25% for active students, and 65.25 for students that are less active in social media